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Are these latest cards refreshes of some of the old GPK cards from back in the 80s or is there new artwork in this series?

I just completed my vintage GPK collection a couple of years ago, but got disappointed by the new cards once they started to refresh the older cards and put out fewer and fewer band new cards.

Yes, there is new artwork.

I actually just started collecting the Flashback series 3 a week or so ago. I bought about 20 packs total. Within those packs I had enough variant silver, pink, green, and Adam mania cards to trade for everything I needed to complete Series 3...AS WELL AS enough to trade for a COMPLETE Series 1 and 2. Thank goodness for Garbage Pail Kids Underground

Originally Posted by deltadod

I bought some at meijers yesterday pretty cool but how many posters are there? I have two and would be willing to trade them for others I may want.

I have "Up Chuck" and "Sally Suction" posters from Target packs.

Last edited by MOTU_Maniac; November 14, 2011 at 01:09pm.
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Are these latest cards refreshes of some of the old GPK cards from back in the 80s or is there new artwork in this series?

I just completed my vintage GPK collection a couple of years ago, but got disappointed by the new cards once they started to refresh the older cards and put out fewer and fewer band new cards.

Its actually a mix, there are new cards in each series. The new cards consist of new cards (like the card mocking Lady Gaga), ones that were banned originally in the 80's by TOPPS (the dead Lincoln one comes to mind), where are they now cards which show you what happened to your favorite characters (and on the back it shows the original card).

Not to mention the random sketch cards that are really hard to get, all of which are completely original and unduplicated artwork (there only exists 1 of each sketch). We were lucky and got a sketch card for FB2 in our Hobby Case we bought.

I mean there is not going to be any completely new series because part of the appeal is the nostalgia factor

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Its actually a mix, there are new cards in each series. The new cards consist of new cards (like the card mocking Lady Gaga), ones that were banned originally in the 80's by TOPPS (the dead Lincoln one comes to mind), where are they now cards which show you what happened to your favorite characters (and on the back it shows the original card).

This is good to know. Now that I know that there is new artwork, I'm more likely to pick these up. Now if only I can find them where I live. I'll probably have to drive up to Raleigh to find them.

Its actually a mix, there are new cards in each series. The new cards consist of new cards (like the card mocking Lady Gaga), ones that were banned originally in the 80's by TOPPS (the dead Lincoln one comes to mind), where are they now cards which show you what happened to your favorite characters (and on the back it shows the original card).

My impression is that they are taking the characters that would have been vintage series #17(?) and putting them into these flashbacks.

My impression is that they are taking the characters that would have been vintage series #17(?) and putting them into these flashbacks.

That is part of it, but new ones like the Lady Gaga one are obviously a new thing in the last 2 years. The ANS had more of the characters that would been in the vintage series

The artist who did a lot of Garbage Pail Kids (John Pound) has the original art for the banned cards for sale, Lincoln for example was omitted from Series 3 and Series 5, so Flashback is getting some REALLY old cards that were never released

It really is a mix of ones that were denied 20 years ago, reprints, updates (where are they now) and completely new ones. Of course its going to be heavier on the reprints since its a nostalgia based series

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I am pretty sure there will be, the cards are selling out all over and TOPPS is having trouble keeping up with orders. FB1 was the test, it passed with flying colors.

Its hard to say though because TOPPS does kind of like Mattel where a major retailer orders x amount of cards and TOPPS chooses what they get. So if they REALLY like GPK and order a nice amount they could get stuck with Wacky Packages

But the sales are strong and as long as they have cards to reprint the series should go for at least another 3-7 series.

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This is good to know. For a while, I was back into collecting GPK and managed to get most of the old series - except a US version of Series 1. I collected the new series, but it became a lot cheaper to buy an entire set off of eBay than try and collect a whole set.

Once the flashback series came out, I sorta' drifted away from it, but an all-new series 8 is welcome news.

I picked up the July 2012 issue of Previews (TMNT on front/DCnU 52 Superman issue #0 Cover) and on page 376 (trading card (orange) section) there is a solicit for "Garabage Pail Kids Series 1 Stickers".

I'm not going to retype the solicit but they are $2.09 a pack and and will be out in September. The sticker they show is "D. Jay"